LICENTIA COGITATIONIS

As a scholar with specific subject matter expertise in anthropology and public health, and as an individual living with HIV, a first generation college student, and queer man with history of substance abuse whose work and life are deeply intertwined, I have derived a lot of comfort and hope in bearing witness to the power of community coalitions while accompanying community leaders and advocates in mobilizing to take care of one another, to act, and to engage in necessary fights around issues that have long been in existence: universal and meaningful healthcare, abolition, housing rights, equal employment, gender equality, environmental justice, and rights of marginalized communities, displaced populations, migrants and immigrants. I have worked alongside community leaders, activists, and health and social providers in the field of HIV and disease prevention who have long refused to accept the status quo, and have instead, created their own forms of care or reimagined the existing sy...

Thinking About Thinking This is an introduction to the theoretical framework which I use to make sense of the world, guide my investigations, and interpret the results of my inquiries. It is best described as a strategic plan for how not to think, than an established way of thinking; because it  seeks out and identifies the multiplicity in the generative meaning-making, which define  science and society. And  ,  as the primary function of  productive desire in human thought. To identify and assemble all the pieces of a perceived reality, we need to first deconstruct them.  This is, perhaps, more suitably, a rejection of contemporary social theory and the occidental frames of analysis that hold these epistemologies upright; and, at the same time, is a blueprint for constructing epistemological alterity and novelty in the world. Making the object of inquiry, the “symbols in action” which are used by individuals to conceptualize the world around them. ...